On April 12, 1633, chief inquisitor Father Vincenzo Maculani da Firenzuola, appointed by Pope Urban VIII, begins the inquisition of physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church. Standard practice demanded that the accused be imprisoned and secluded during the trial.
This was the second time that Galileo was in the hot seat for refusing to accept Church orthodoxy that the Earth was the immovable center of the universe: In 1616, he had been forbidden from holding or defending his beliefs. In the 1633 interrogation, Galileo denied that he “held” belief in the Copernican view but continued to write about the issue and evidence as a means of “discussion” rather than belief. The Church had decided the idea that the sun moved around the Earth was an absolute fact of scripture that could not be disputed, despite the fact that scientists had known for centuries that the Earth was not the center of the universe.
This time, Galileo’s technical argument didn’t win the day. On June 22, 1633, the Church handed down the following order: “We pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo… have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy, that is, of having believed and held the doctrine (which is false and contrary to the Holy and Divine Scriptures) that the sun is the center of the world, and that it does not move from east to west, and that the earth does move, and is not the center of the world.”
Along with the order came the following penalty: “We order that by a public edict the book of Dialogues of Galileo Galilei be prohibited, and We condemn thee to the prison of this Holy Office during Our will and pleasure; and as a salutary penance We enjoin on thee that for the space of three years thou shalt recite once a week the Seven Penitential Psalms.”
Galileo agreed not to teach the heresy anymore and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It took more than 300 years for the Church to admit that Galileo was right and to clear his name of heresy.
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For god’s sake, what was wrong with Galileo, the science had been long settled that the sun revolved around the earth.
Amazingly, and sadly, the Galileo Mentality is still very very much alive in 2021 AD.
Galileo posed questions others were unwilling to ask. He saw things that others failed to see. And the powers-that-be of that time persecuted him for it. Just as we do today.
The general population was expected to lean solely on “authority” to provide answers … which, in that time, was the Church. “Shut up and trust us for We Know All!!”. And the general population back then feasted on this. And how is that different today?
Do we not STILL in this supposedly modern scientific age have Beliefs which thrive despite the lack of evidence for it … or even despite the obvious evidence that disproves it??? Of course we do – Covid insanity is just the latest iteration.
Questioning what is believed to be Known Facts is still heresy today. Faith in “authority” is still a religion. Crucifying the Questioners is still an acceptable sport.
We’ve made much progress since 1633. We’ve made no progress since 1633. Both statements are true.
Thank goodness we have snopes now
In hindsight he seems to be a false flag. The earth doesn’t seem to be moving and doesn’t seem to a sphere, and space etc. isn’t what we’ve been told (nor the space station). Believe me I was trying to disprove that last sentence, and most who look into it start that way.
Study up before the evidence is completely hidden, and before you bring up ‘math’. Spherical geometry is what it is and true but it doesn’t mean the earth is a sphere.
There are many anti proofs but my biggest are 1. The horizon/radius formula is easy to prove is totally wrong.- doesn’t correspond to reality. 2. They lost the moon trip data. Mmm hmmm
After all a FAKE GLOBAL PANDEMIC is happening right now.
Everything we’ve been taught is a lie, generally speaking.
*i was going put a link to a video on geocentrism but couldn’t find it although I think it’s still on Amazon. Things are getting harder and harder to find.